2016 Photomicrography Competition

Young flower buds of Arabidopsis (a flowering plant)

Dr. Nathanaël Prunet

Affiliation
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Pasadena, California, USA
Technique
Confocal
Magnification
3000x

Cross-section through a multi-layered carbon-fiber reinforced composite structure for defect analysis

Peter Pook

Affiliation
Stelia Aerospace North America Inc.
Riverport, Nova Scotia, Canada
Technique
Darkfield, Image Stitching
Magnification
100x

Early stages of mouse embryo development (single blastomeres)

Dr. Gaelle Recher M. Goolam, Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz

Affiliation
University of Cambridge
Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Lab, PDN Department
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Technique
Confocal

Mouse embryos were labelled with two different colors of fluorescent proteins when they were at the two-cell stage. And then they were imaged over time, and cells kept on expressing the fluorescent protein as they divide, that permits to keep record of their history, from which of the two cells they come.